My old friend and collaborator Theo
Schlossnagle at OmniTI posted his slides from his Scalable
Internet Architectures talk at VelocityConf 2009.

The slides are brilliant even without seeing Theo talk and I
highly recommend the time it takes to flip through them, for
anyone who is interested in systems performance. If anyone took
an mp3 of this talk I’m dying to hear it, please let me know.

For those of you unfamiliar with OmniTI, Theo is the CEO of this
rather remarkable company specializing in Internet-scale
architecture consulting. They …

When testing software, especially for performance, remember to
test on the same hardware you intend to deploy on. One trend I
have seen for some time is that testing is often done on whatever
happens to be lying around and not otherwise assigned.

While you can certainly test MySQL or an email server on such
hardware, you should at least be aware that by providing hardware
that does not match what you use in production you will not get
an accurate picture, and sometimes the differences can be
dramatic. This is especially true of enterprise software with
high demands for …

One week ago today I started work at OmniTI as a sales engineer
for their Ecelerity MTA offering.

I’ve met and caught up with a great bunch of coworkers, learned a
great deal about the new software I’ll be supporting, and
generally had a really good time.

I think it is too early to really draw a comparison with working
for MySQL, but it is a nice change of pace to sit in an office
for a couple of weeks with the human interaction that goes along
with it.

So what is Ecelerity? It’s a high-performance, extensible,
clusterable MTA (mail transfer agent). Ecelerity is used by
companies that need to send high volumes …

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